News Values, AP Style, and PR Writing Quiz

• This paper quizzes on news values, AP style, PR writing fundamentals, and copy analysis
• The quiz is worth 15% of the final grade
• The time allowed is 1 hour and 30 minutes
• The total marks for the quiz are 30

Hong Kong Construction Site Blaze

• A large blaze at a Housing Society site in Tin Shui Wai was brought under control after 40 hours.
• Firefighters deployed drones and robots to fight the fire.
• At its peak, the fire was upgraded to a No. 4 alarm, the second-highest on the city's scale.
• The fire started at about 1:20 pm on Tuesday and was largely put out by 7 am on Thursday.
• The Fire Services Department said some firefighters needed to remain to prevent the fire from re-emerging.
• Deputy chief fire officer Wong King-man noted the vast area of the site and building materials complicated the operation.
• The fire site measured 70 metres by 80 metres, totaling over 5,000 square metres.
• The temperature went beyond 500 degrees Celsius, and there was a lot of smoke.
• Highly inflammable oxyacetylene cylinders contributed to the intense fire.
• Firefighters changed their defensive strategy to a more proactive one.
• Emergency personnel didn't have access to the basement for over a day where the fire started.
• Drones were used for aerial surveillance, and robots assisted firefighters.
• The basement was like a maze with metal and wooden frames.
• Authorities mobilized 741 firefighters and emergency personnel, 201 fire engines, and 14 ambulances.
• Eight water jets and six breathing apparatus teams were involved.
• Fires in Hong Kong are rated on a scale of one to five.
• Explosions possibly linked to oxyacetylene cylinders occurred in the basement.
• The cause of the blaze remains under investigation.
• Residents had to close their windows for the plumes of smoke.
• Two tower cranes at the site were not in immediate danger.
• The Buildings Department will provide assistance and conduct further inspections.
• The society may reinforce, disassemble, or replace the two tower cranes.

South Korea Trainee Doctors Resign

• The South Korean government warned that trainee doctors put public health at risk by resigning to protest a plan to admit more students to medical schools.
• The health ministry issued a back-to-work order to 154 doctors across seven hospitals.
• Refusing to comply will result in punishment.
• The government plans to increase medical school admissions by 2,000 students for 2025 and add 10,000 doctors by 2035.
• Currently, about 3,000 students enter medical schools each year.
• Doctors and medical students protest that increasing physicians would prompt unnecessary medical care and worsen national health insurance finances.
• Trainee doctors at the country's five biggest hospitals decided to resign.
• Media estimated around 2,700 doctors, about a fifth of the country's medical interns and resident doctors, would be involved.
• The government views collective action by doctors as illegal and will respond firmly to strikes.
• The health ministry ordered teaching hospitals to disregard resignations.
• Doctors not complying with the back-to-work order will be punished under medical services law.
• A 2020 government proposal to increase medical school admissions by 4,000 over 10 years was shelved due to opposition and a strike.
• The government aims to increase the number of doctors practicing outside Seoul, in basic disciplines, and expand protection against malpractice suits.
• Doctors and medical students believe the plan won't address the overburdening of large teaching hospitals and lack of incentives.
• Doctors across the country rallied, calling on the government to scrap the plan.